Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

Nominated for best show at the 2014 Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards and winner of the 2014 Chortle Breakthrough Award, Sara Pascoe has been working as a comedy actor, sketch performer, improviser and writer since 2006, when she joined the Newsreue topical sketch show. She started stand-up in late 2007 and the following year was a runner-up in the Funny Women competition and placed third in the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition.

In 2009, she had a regular role in the Channel 4 sitcom Free Agents as the disrespectful assistant, Emma.

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New book podcast from Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd

Aimed at 'lonely outsiders'

Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd are launching a book-club podcast aimed at 'lonely outsiders'

In Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club - which launches next Thursday - the comedians and guests will each week discuss a book that is ‘special, stimulating and weird’.

The pair describe the show as  ‘a space for the lonely outsider to feel accepted and appreciated’, and for book-lovers who don't like 'wine or nibbles - or other people'.

The podcast ties in with the publication of Pascoe’s debut novel, Weirdo, on September 14. She said: ‘Cariad and I have had so many interesting conversations about books that were *wasted* because no one else was even listening. That mistake is now rectified.’

And Lloyd – creator of the successful Griefcast – said: ‘I am delighted to finally be combining my favourite topics: books, weirdos, chatting, podcasts and Sara Pascoe and cannot wait for everyone to hear how much Sara and I like talking about reading.’

To mark the launch of the podcast across all the usual platfrom, the pair will present a live edition at 21Soho in London  on September 6.

Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club is produced by Plosive – the team behind podcasts including Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, Cuddle Club with Lou Sanders and Harry Hill’s Noise.

Listen to a trailer here.

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Published: 14 Aug 2023

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Products

Book (2023)
Weirdo by Sara Pascoe

Book (2019)
Sex Power Money

Book (2016)
Sara Pascoe: Animal

DVD (2011)
Campus: Series 1

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